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WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) — Several U.S. companies have said they will stop advertising on Rush Limbaugh‘s radio program because of his on-air attack on a young female law student. The advertisers reported a deluge of complaining tweets, Huffington Post reported. Sleep Train, a mattress retailer based in the Sacramento …

A few days ago, the website Mental Floss posted an amazing, seemingly impossible piece of American trivia, which then quickly spread around the web, to Yahoo, the Huffington Post, ABC News, Fox News, Politico, Kottke, the Daily Mail, and others: Two grandsons of President John Tyler — who was born …

1.25 billion Number of chicken wings (about 100 million pounds worth) that Americans are expected to consume during the Super Bowl, the most popular wing-eating day of the year (via Huffington Post) Consuming Billions of Chicken Wings During the Super Bowl | NewsFeed | TIME.com.

“Nobody knows what happens in the intimacy of couples, and I deny anyone the right to judge mine.” — ANNE SINCLAIR, French journalist and wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in her first interview since her husband became involved in a sex-crime scandal; Sinclair will helm the French version of the Huffington …

We have already identified that ABC’s sitcom Work It, about two “guy’s guys” who dress up as women to get jobs, isgoing to be the worst show in history. Now we have a whole new reason to hate it: it’s bad for the transgenders. Milquetoast gay assimilationist groups HRC …

When Americans talked or wrote about Kim Jong Il, we often tended to play up his eccentricities: his ridiculous sunglasses, his towering hair, his platform shoes, his interest in movies. The 24 hours since the announcement of Kim’s death have been no exception. Huffington Post quickly published a fashion retrospective …

At 25 years old, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in “Citizen Kane,” which was inspired by the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Despite being widely considered the greatest film of all time, “Kane” only ended up taking home a single Academy Award — for best screenplay, in …

The Huffington Post has surpassed The New York Times in monthly uniques from the U.S., according to data from comScore and illustrated in a chart by Business Insider. In May, The Huffington Post pulled in 36.6 million unique visitors from the U.S., compared to 35.5 for The New …

“It’s like when a parent cries. We expect our parents to keep it together and we expect our journalists to keep it together.” –MITCHELL STEPHENS, NYU Professor and author of “A History of News,” referring to the viral clip of Weather Channel reporter Mike Bettes’ emotional breakdown when reporting …

During Charlie Sheen’s Tuesday performance at Washington, D.C.â€™s DAR Constitution Hall, the actor-turned-sideshow confessed that he’sÂ one of those who are unconvinced of President Barack Obama’s citizenship. Sheen cited a Huffington Post presidential poll that, he said, “had me annihilating that lunatic from Alaska,” former Gov. Sarah Palin. Other polls, …

PARIS â€” It may not be the first royal wedding of the digital era, but it is the first full-on British royal wedding of the digital era in which a potential future king of Britain will marry. So, when Prince William weds Kate Middleton on April 29, the event will …

Somewhere along the line, utility became a bad word at news magazines. And thatâ€™s where The Week saw an opening. While magazines like Time and Newsweek published heavy essays, distinguished guest columnists and artful photo spreads, The Week embraced magazine journalism at its most functional and stripped down. Small photographs. …